Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives | Proton
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New research from Proton shows that Europeans want to shed US tech dependence and build tech sovereignty for Europe. Read the full report.
  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Good. Start by introducing a viable smartphone OS, because right now it’s down to Apple and Google, both from the US.

    Linux is a great place to start. Android is based on Linux. Even a fork of Android that doesn’t give Google any data would be a good place to start, but relying on AOSP — Google’s open source repository — isn’t ideal.

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      2 hours ago

      Not even sure there is that much will on politicians side. I hope there is, but they are mostly ignorant (judging from politicians in my country) and wouldn’t distinguish between Word and Windows. They might be interested if there are elections and public pushes for it. But once elected then it’s another song based on US stick and carrot. Mostly sticks from this administration. But I really do hope we start to move and now is the best time possible. Also recently there was data that German Federal Administration is paying Microsoft something like:

      2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

      The trend is not encouraging, isn’t it, and those are insane numbers - imagine what could we have for that amount with OSS. There is another neglected area - computer education in elementary school is practically non-existent and tiny-existent in middle school in my country while MS is subsidizing software for government and specially education sector. And so the circle of is closed.